This meme omits the context of Musk’s post, where he says in most cases the word “homeless” is a lie. It was in response to another post about how the homeless in SF who were given housing ended up in squalor and violence.
Musk is mostly correct on his take here. The primary cause of the homeless problem in the US is not one of poverty, but of mental illness and addiction. Normal people who fall on hard times don’t end up on the street, they find friends and family to room with. It’s people who’ve burned all their bridges and/or don’t have the mental capacity to seek help that end up on the streets. Which is why simply giving them housing doesn’t solve the issue.
It’s bizarre to see them seesaw back and forth that Trump is totally clueless and aloof, just golfing all day, then all of a sudden he’s a dangerous king/dictator who’s diligently plotting to seize absolute power.
▪️This one is frustrating because, while it’s nice to see the vigor and speed that DOGE is acting with, they’re also sloppy with some of their findings. This is not some bombshell, millions of dead people’s SS numbers aren’t being paid out to fraudsters.
▪️This problem has been known for some time, you can read an inspector general’s report from 2015 about millions of names on the SS “numident” not being correctly annotated for deaths, even though they were older than 112 (the oldest known American at the time).
https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-06-14-34030_0.pdf
▪️There are innocent explanations for some of these. Expatriates that died outside the country, for example. Or immigrants given temporary work permit who returned to their country, people issued new numbers for various reasons, etc. However, most are simply due to the govt not diligently keeping track of deaths.
▪️It’s embarrassing that the govt has millions of numbers on the numident that are ...
